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<b> </b><br><b>Subject:</b> Funding Opportunity - DOD Releases FY 2013 MURI BAA<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Below and attached is an update on DOD’s release of a solicitation for the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), DOD’s largest program aimed specifically at supporting multidisciplinary, multi-institution teams of researchers to pursue basic science in priority areas for the Department. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>DOD outlines 23 topics for this year’s MURI competition, many of which reflect the six basic research priorities identified by DOD Director of Basic Research Robin Staffin. A complete list of topics is in the report and full descriptions of each are in the FY 2013 MURI Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). One noteworthy item that is different from previous years - the FY 2013 BAA outlines a specific</span> funding allocation for each topic and indicates <span style>the size of the research team DOD intends to support. Allocations vary, but most are in the range of $1.25 million-</span><span style="color:#1f497d">$</span><span style>1.5 million annually for a team of five to seven researchers for a period of up to five years.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Funding Opportunity: DOD Releases BAA for FY 2013 MURI Competition<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Lewis-Burke Associates LLC – August 15, 2012<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Department of Defense (DOD) released its long-anticipated Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the fiscal year (FY) 2013 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) late on August 14. MURI is one of DOD’s signature basic research programs, supporting multidisciplinary and multi-institution teams of researchers to pursue cutting-edge basic science in areas of interest to the Department. The FY 2013 competition will be coordinated by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in collaboration with the Army Research Office (ARO) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The 23 individual MURI topics for FY 2013 are divided between ONR, ARO, and AFOSR and investigators should submit proposals directly to the service branch research office responsible for the topic to which they are responding. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">As expected, the FY 2013 MURI topics reflect the six basic research priorities identified by DOD Director of Basic Research Robin Staffin (whose office is responsible for approving the topics). The priorities are synthetic biology, engineered materials, quantum information and control, human motivations and behavior, cognitive neuroscience, and nano-science and engineering. These priorities permeate the FY 2013 MURI announcement through such topics as Artificial Cells for Novel Synthetic Biology Chassis, Electrochemical Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems, and Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Consolidation across Sleep Stages and Efficient Learning. More broadly, the FY 2013 topics also illustrate DOD’s continuing focus on challenges related to defense energy use and production, cybersecurity, developing alternatives to rare Earth materials, and processing complex datasets for use in decision making. A complete list of topics by service branch follows. Details of each, including the anticipated funding allocation and acceptable team size, are included in the full BAA. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ARO Topics: <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Artificial Cells for Novel Synthetic Biology Chassis <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Molecular Co-Crystal Design and Synthesis <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Reduced Cyber-system Signature Observability by Intelligent and Stochastic Adaptation <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Non-equilibrium Many-body Dynamics <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Materials with Spin Mediated Thermal Properties <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Transforming Information within Nonequilibrium Nanosystems <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Controlling Collective Phenomena in Complex Networks <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Physiochemical Determinants of Cognition and Decision Making <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">AFOSR Topics:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Measurement and Verification Methods in Quantum Information Science <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">New Quantum Phases of Matter <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Multiphysics and Multiscale Failure Prediction through Peridynamic Theory <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Electrochemical Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A New Paradigm in Sources and Physics of High-Power Ionospheric Modification <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Magneto-electric Energy Conversion Materials: Terahertz Emission and Efficient Energy <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Conversion in Unbiased Dielectrics <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Photonic Synthetic Matter <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Random Lasers, Nano-spasers and Optical Rogue Waves <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Free Space Optical Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Integrated Nanophotonics <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Exploitation of Natural and Anthropogenic Noise for Ocean Exploration <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Rare Element Replacement Strategies <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Acoustic Metamaterials <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Consolidation across Sleep Stages and Efficient Learning <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u>Computational Foundations of Moral Cognition <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Letters of Intent: </span></b><span style>Not applicable. However, researchers can begin the process by submitting a white paper that summarizes their ideas to an appropriate AFOSR, ARO, or ONR topic chief. DOD encourages this as a means for identifying areas of mutual interest between DOD and investigators. Topic chiefs will provide initial feedback to investigators as to whether proposals align with DOD priorities for the FY 2013 MURI competition.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Due Dates: </b>White papers are due by 4:00 PM Eastern on Tuesday, October 9 and DOD expects to provide initial feedback by October 22. Full proposals are due on December 10. Investigators may submit full proposals even if their white papers were not identified as matching DOD priorities, although the chance of success may be reduced. <b> <u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Total Funding and Award Size: </b>DOD anticipates allocating a total of $250 million through this competition, subject to out-year appropriations. Awards are made for an initial three year period with the possibility of a two year extension. Unlike previous years, DOD outlines the specific amount it intends to award for each individual topic area. Proposals may request between $1 million and $2.5 million annually, although DOD states that typical awards will be $1.25 million to $1.5 million per year. In addition, the BAA states the number of investigators DOD will support on a team for each topic area. While suggested team size varies, DOD will support teams of 5-7 for most topics. Proposals must designate a lead institution and a lead investigator from that institution to serve as DOD’s principal contact on the grant.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Eligibility and Limitations: </b>The FY 2013 MURI competition is open to U.S. institutions of higher education, including DOD institutions of higher education, with degree-granting programs in science and/or engineering. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Sources and Additional Background:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u>The complete FY 2013 MURI BAA is available through the ONR website at <a href="http://www.onr.navy.mil/%7E/media/Files/Funding-Announcements/BAA/2012/12-020.ashx" target="_blank">http://www.onr.navy.mil/~/media/Files/Funding-Announcements/BAA/2012/12-020.ashx</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u>A list of the FY 2012 MURI award winners is at <a href="http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15283" target="_blank">http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15283</a>. <u></u><u></u></p>
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